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MINUTES OF THE CITY COUNCIL GENERAL PLAN WORKSHOP May 23, 2006 1. Call to Order: The workshop was called to order by Mayor Jennifer Hosterman at 6:30 p.m. Those in attendance were as follows: City Councilmembers Steve Brozosky, Cindy McGovern, Matt Sullivan, Jerry Thorne and Mayor Hosterman. Staff members present were: Nelson Fialho, City Manager; Michael Roush, City Attorney; Jerry Iserson, Director of Planning and Community Services; Janice Stern, Principal Planner; David P. Culver, Finance Director; Susan Rossi, Assistant Finance Director; Julie Farnsworth, Director of Library Services; Jim Wolfe, Director of Parks and Community Services, Rob Wilson, Director of Public Works; Jacqui Diaz, Assistant to the City Manager; Pamela Ott, Director of Economic Development, Lorie Tinow, Director of Administrative Services; Steve Cusenza, Utility Manager. 2. Economic and Fiscal Element of the General Plan: Review and provide comments on a Draft Economic and Fiscal Element of the General Plan. (SR 06:127) Jerry Iserson presented opening comments indicating other Commissions have reviewed these elements of the General Plan and their comments are included in the staff report. Janice Stern presented the staff report. Steve Brozosky indicated he was happy with Policy 2, which attracts businesses that are a good fit with the resident/worker populations. He felt it was good to add more jobs so that residents don't have to commute out of the city. He referred to Program 4.4, regarding recruitment of local residents, and believed that was covered by the TriValleyJobs.com website and felt the Program wording should be "maintain" not to "establish". Program 13.9 is a new program requiring fiscal analysis for large housing and mixed-use projects. He believed there should be some kind of threshold that defines large housing. Ms. Stern said there deliberately was no definition in order to maintain some flexibility. Mr. Brozosky asked how expensive it was to prepare a report like this? Ms. Stern said there was a model, which developers could follow and it would cost about $10,000. Mr. Brozosky then referred to Program 14.4, which is to fund the normal employer rate established by the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS) and transfer any excess to a reserve to be used in the future. He asked if there could be a cap on this and if the fund reached 20% for the normal obligation anything over that could be applied to capital improvement projects. He did not like to have that money just sitting there.